Category: Food & Wine

Pairing wine with cheese

In part four of our new series, food writer Susie Carter takes a look at how to successfully pair wines with key ingredients. In the run up to Christmas, she’ll be looking at the most harmonious partners on the cheeseboard. With such a wide range of flavours and textures among the different cheeses, it’s only […]

Reservations about the business lunch

  As Commercial Director of our wholesale arm, Fields, Morris & Verdin, Damian Carrington knows only too well the importance of the working lunch – so why is it increasingly disappearing from the menu? I’m not sure if I have a ‘readership’ as such but I do picture in my mind’s eye what you might […]

Pairing wine with game birds

In our new series food writer Susie Carter takes a look at how to successfully pair wines with key ingredients. This month she tackles the best bottles to make the most of the British game bird season Feathered game tends to fall into two categories – the paler meat of partridge and pheasant and the […]

Ratings winners

Damian Carrington, Commercial Director of our wholesale arm, Fields, Morris & Verdin – and a well-seasoned veteran of dining out – on what it takes to elevate a respectable restaurant experience to a truly remarkable one How do you judge a restaurant? What really makes the difference between the truly great and the merely good? […]